For general surveys of the economy of the Ancient Near East with reference to the issues explored in this chapter see Snell 1997 and Van De Mieroop 1999a. On the institutional and non-institutional sectors in Mesopotamia see Renger 1994 and 1995 and Van Driel 2002. In Renger’s view, in contrast to that presented in this chapter, there was a clear progression toward the growth of the private sector in the Ancient Near East.
A number of recent conferences have focused their attention on the society and economy of the Ancient Near East and the interaction of institutional and non-institutional households. See Dercksen 1999, Bongenaar 2000, Hudson and Levine 1996, 1999, Hudson and Van De Mieroop 2002, and Watanabe 1999. Additionally Sasson 1995 has studies of various aspects of the society and economy of the Ancient Near East including Egypt.
For a closer look at the development and interaction of institutional and non-institutional households in the different historical periods of Mesopotamia, see for prehistory Bernbeck 1995; for the Early Dynastic period Van De Mieroop 2002; for the Old Akkadian period Liverani 1993a; for the Ur III period Steinkeller 1991 and 2002b, Van Driel 1994, Maekawa 1996, and Heimpel 1997 (for merchants and the state see Neumann 1999 and Garfinkle 2002); for the Old Assyrian period Dercksen 1996 and 2000; for the Old Babylonian period Yoffee 1977, Renger 1979, 1984, 1994, 1995, and 2002, and Van De Mieroop 1992; for the Neo-Assyrian period Radner 1999; for the Neo-Babylonian Beaulieu 2000a and Bongenaar 2000; and for the Persian period Stolper 1985 and Joanne;s 1995.
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